Call for Papers
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)
Special Issue on
Computational Sustainability
Computational Sustainability is a newly emerging interdisciplinary field that aims to apply techniques from
computer science, information science, operations research, applied mathematics, and statistics for balancing
environmental, economic, and societal needs for sustainable development. Mathematical models have
traditionally been studied in disciplines as diverse as ecology, natural resource management, biodiversity,
atmospheric science, biological and environmental engineering, and resource economics, but such models are now
being integrated with techniques originating from Artificial intelligence. This special issue of ACM TIST calls for
articles that study computational sustainability problems from an intelligent systems and technology perspective.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to Intelligent Systems and Technology for
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Quantifying and Managing Uncertainty in Computational Sustainability
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Human-behavioral uncertainty in social-ecological systems
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Species Distribution, Monitoring and Tracking
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Sustainable Communities, Agriculture and other Applications
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Problems in Spatial Modeling and Resource Allocation, and Dynamic Optimization of Renewable
Resources
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Green Energy, Transportation, Power Efficiency, Smart Grid, and Smart Cities
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Human Computing Interaction, models of social behavior, learning and influence, Crowdsourcing, and
Social Networks for Sustainability
Submissions
On-Line Submission:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select “Special Issue: Computational Sustainability” as the
manuscript type). Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the website:
http://tist.acm.org/
Important Dates
Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2010
Review Notification: June 15, 2010
Final Manuscript: June 25, 2010
Publication Date: Summer/Fall, 2010
Guest Editor
Carla P. Gomes (Cornell University)
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/gomes/